If you deal with enormous capture files, speeding up your work process is crucial.
Watch this video for a demonstration and example of how you can solve this issue:
What I have below is a minimized dissector profile you can use.
This is a minimized dissector profile that will reduce Wireshark crashes, speed your carving/parsing jobs, and generally speed up Wireshark activities such as Statistics.
Profiles are one of the most important Wireshark capabilities. Â Setting up and using different profiles for different environments, protocols, and tasks is a crucial skill that we teach in our Wireshark courses. Â Let’s say you went to the Wireshark site and tried to find some! Â Suprisingly, here is what you would get:
Whaaaaat?????
No worries. Â We have an answer below:
Let’s look at what you get with this profile.
What did we do? Â We simply went to Analyze> Enabled Protocols, disabled all the protcols and then turned on a minimized set.
Try this profile, and then add or delete protocols as you need to for your purposes.
Again, all of this is a great starting point. Â What do you think we are missing? Â What would you add?
To download this ZIP file click here. Â Make sure you unzip it into your personal folders, profiles subdirectory:
We hope this helps you with Wireshark!
Got a better one?  Or have a profile you would like to send to us?  Send it to andyw@cellstream.com – thanks in advance – we share profiles here.
Another way to find profiles, click on “Profile” in the tag cloud.